Dichotomy

/daɪˈkɒtəmi/

Synonyms for "dichotomy" (66 found)

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categorisationcategorizationclass distinctionclassificationconceptual divisiondata typedivisionvariable type

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binary variabledichotomous variablemind-body dichotomynature nurture dichotomystructure-function dichotomy

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binary dichotomydichotomy betweenfalse dichotomymind-body dichotomynature nurture dichotomy

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That is a false dichotomy.

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The work-play dichotomy has something to do with the left-right brain dichotomy.

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Compiled and co-edited by Maria Ebrahimji and Zahra Suratwala, the book "I Speak for Myself" contains first-person narratives by 40 Muslim women born and raised in the United States who, as the editors point out, have been "negotiating a dichotomy of Islamic and Western values since birth."

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The nature of the Germanic-Mediterranean dichotomy of English vocabulary seems still a novelty for many people, including my neighbours, the Wongs, who are multiracial from Fiji, once a British colony. The more educated an Anglophone is, the more acrolectal Mediterranean is the vocabulary. The less educated an Anglophone is, the more basilectal Germanic is the vocabulary. The late inventor, Buckminster Fuller, was very experimental in his English writing, as he concocted new-fangled words from Mediterranean and Germanic roots. He thought that using words only found in the dictionary was like living in a prison.

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